Painted Cutout Butterly with Fine Antennae! pottery vase who traveled around the world

who traveled around the world shooting animals and buying strange artifacts of many sorts

The lid comes off and closes tight

I see them as just gorgeous sculptural objects

The spine is much worn but the stitched binding is holding together

but I do believe these are likely not too much older than the pocket frame

Painted Cutout Butterly with Fine Antennae! pottery vase who traveled around the worldQuite an exhuberant butterly, and it seems fairly old one judging from the back, hand painted on laid paper, with very finely cut out antennae! Perhaps it lost one tiny one along the way, but who cares, a lovely, painterly thing which also feels quite symbolic! 7 7 16 wing span x 4 1 8 t, very good condition.